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MICHAEL F. EASLEY
GOVERNOR
UNITED NATIONS DAY
2006
BY THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
A PROCLAMATION
VlHEREAS, the United Nations was founded in 1945, and the anniversary of its founding is observed each
year on October 24; and
'·
WHEREAS, one of the principal mandates of the United Nations-"To achieve. international cooperation in
solving problems of an economic, social, cultural, or humanitarian character" - remains as valid today as when those
words were written into its charter more than half a century ago; and
WHEREAS, in September 2000, 189 counrries, including the United States, agreed on d1e Millenium
Development Goals; and
WHEREAS, a fifth of the Millennium Development Goals focuses on the reduction of maternal mortality, and
seeks to reduce by three quarters the ration of women dying in childbirth by 2015; and
WHEREAS, the United States is a champion of women's rights both here and abroad, most recently in its
work in Afghanistan and Iraq; and
WHEREAS, the United States must continue to work with the United Nations and UN agencies in order to
provide a coordinated, multilateral effort in both assessing the current problem of maternal health and well-being and
detem1ining the strategies and mechanisms best suited to reduce maternal morta lity and improve women's hea lth; and
WHEREAS, the United Nations Association of the United States, in cooperation with other organizations, has
declared "Maternal Health and Well-Being" as its theme for the 2006 United Nations Day commemorations; and
WHEREAS, Judge William A. Creech has been appointed chair of United Nations Day in North'Carolina to
work with a United Nations Day Committee composed of community leaders to organize events and activities to
educate citizens about the continuing need for the United Nations and the importance of undertaking efforts on the
local and international level to promoied global cooperative initiatives toward a peaceful and more just world;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, MICHAEL F. EASLEY, Governor of the State of North Carolina, do hereby
proclaim October 24, 2006, as "UNITED NATIONS DAY" in North Carolina and urge all our citizens to conunend
this observance.
MICHAEI.- F. EASLEY
, I have hereunto set·my hand and affixed the Great Seal of the State ofNord1
Carolina at the Capitol in th is sixteenth day of October in the year of our Lord two thousand and six, and of
the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-first.

MICHAEL F. EASLEY
GOVERNOR
UNITED NATIONS DAY
2006
BY THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
A PROCLAMATION
VlHEREAS, the United Nations was founded in 1945, and the anniversary of its founding is observed each
year on October 24; and
'·
WHEREAS, one of the principal mandates of the United Nations-"To achieve. international cooperation in
solving problems of an economic, social, cultural, or humanitarian character" - remains as valid today as when those
words were written into its charter more than half a century ago; and
WHEREAS, in September 2000, 189 counrries, including the United States, agreed on d1e Millenium
Development Goals; and
WHEREAS, a fifth of the Millennium Development Goals focuses on the reduction of maternal mortality, and
seeks to reduce by three quarters the ration of women dying in childbirth by 2015; and
WHEREAS, the United States is a champion of women's rights both here and abroad, most recently in its
work in Afghanistan and Iraq; and
WHEREAS, the United States must continue to work with the United Nations and UN agencies in order to
provide a coordinated, multilateral effort in both assessing the current problem of maternal health and well-being and
detem1ining the strategies and mechanisms best suited to reduce maternal morta lity and improve women's hea lth; and
WHEREAS, the United Nations Association of the United States, in cooperation with other organizations, has
declared "Maternal Health and Well-Being" as its theme for the 2006 United Nations Day commemorations; and
WHEREAS, Judge William A. Creech has been appointed chair of United Nations Day in North'Carolina to
work with a United Nations Day Committee composed of community leaders to organize events and activities to
educate citizens about the continuing need for the United Nations and the importance of undertaking efforts on the
local and international level to promoied global cooperative initiatives toward a peaceful and more just world;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, MICHAEL F. EASLEY, Governor of the State of North Carolina, do hereby
proclaim October 24, 2006, as "UNITED NATIONS DAY" in North Carolina and urge all our citizens to conunend
this observance.
MICHAEI.- F. EASLEY
, I have hereunto set·my hand and affixed the Great Seal of the State ofNord1
Carolina at the Capitol in th is sixteenth day of October in the year of our Lord two thousand and six, and of
the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-first.